Home » Posts tagged 'united states' (Page 99)
Tag Archives: united states
SOTU’s glaring omission
SOTU’s glaring omission Trump missed two little words President’s Trump’s State of the Union address on February 5 was a call for bipartisan action. But mostly of the wrong kind. His southern border wall is of course a controversial and expensive proposition, but it was his boast that the USA now exports more energy than […]
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA?
So When Will the Yellow Vest Movement Take Hold in the USA? The Yellow Vest anti-government movement (#YellowVests, #GiletsJaunes) began in France on November 17, 2018, when over 300,000 people across France protested a carbon tax on fuel. President Emmanuel Macron claimed the French were leading the world in the battle against climate change. The Yellow […]
Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons
Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by […]
Trump Administration Drills Down on Alaska’s Arctic Refuge
Trump Administration Drills Down on Alaska’s Arctic Refuge The deeply unpopular plan would benefit a few rich oil companies while threatening people, wildlife and the climate. The Trump administration is barreling ahead with plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the largest refuge in the country and an area of global ecological […]
Why Must Venezuela Be Destroyed?
Why Must Venezuela Be Destroyed? February 01, 2019 “Information Clearing House” – Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don’t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that […]
How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works
How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works If President Trump decided to launch a nuclear strike, how swiftly could he put things in motion? Would he have the sole power alone to launch a nuclear missiles? Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes that, according to an analysis undertaken by Bloomberg, the U.S. president’s power is absolute in this situation – […]
The 12-Step Method of Regime Change
The 12-Step Method of Regime Change On 15 September 1970, US President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger authorised the US government to do everything possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger, according to the notes kept by CIA Director Richard Helms, wanted […]
Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel
Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel For some, the crisis in Venezuela is all about the endemic corruption of Nicolás Maduro, continuing the broken legacy of Chavez’s ideological experiment in socialism under the mounting insidious influence of Putin. For others, it’s all about the ongoing counter-democratic meddling of the United […]
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the […]
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines “From a technical point of view, he (Stanley Kubrick) anticipated many things. … Since that time, little has changed, honestly. The only difference is that modern weapons systems have become more sophisticated, more complex. But this idea of a retaliatory strike and the inability to manage these systems, yes, all of these […]
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control Understandably, the problems and politics of the moment dominate the news and attract the attention of most policy commentators and much of the public. Will there be another government shutdown, will House Democrats attempt to impeach the president, will interest rates remain low, and will there be a […]
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas A new report from Rystad Energy identifies five vital themes that will shape global gas markets in 2019. Significant LNG production growth, the rise of US gas to challenge Russian dominance in Europe, insatiable demand in Asia, price pressure in selected regions, and a need for final investment decisions on planned […]
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’ The banner and the clarion call of western countries, and their own asserted legitimation – especially when they are engaging in illegal wars and coups – used to be “freedom and democracy”: the precious gift they were generously and selflessly offering to a backward world – […]
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty © Getty Images / Denver Post In a flash, the US has scrapped the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which safeguarded Europe and the world from a deadly US-Russia arms race. This is particularly bad news for Europeans. Russia must be feeling a […]
